Heaven Puzzle
A person dies, and he arrives at the gate to heaven. There are 3 doors…
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The Extra Dollar in the Hotel
Three people check into a hotel room. The clerk says the bill is $30, so…
Einstein’s Puzzle
Variations of this riddle appear on the net from time to time. It is sometimes…
Signs and Symbols by Vladimir Nabokov
For the fourth time in as many years, they were confronted with the problem of…
The School by Donald Barthelme
Well, we had all these children out planting trees, see, because we figured that ……
Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf
From the oval-shaped flower-bed there rose perhaps a hundred stalks spreading into heart-shaped or tongue-shaped…
The Cats of Ulthar by H. P. Lovecraft
It is said that in Ulthar, which lies beyond the river Skai, no man may…
The McWilliamses And The Burglar Alarm by Mark Twain
The conversation drifted smoothly and pleasantly along from weather to crops, from crops to literature,…
A New England Nun by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
It was late in the afternoon, and the light was waning. There was a difference…
The Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
On the third day of rain they had killed so many crabs inside the house…